Current wiki access status

[Chris Perry]

Hi Alan

People on this list have had almost 48 hours notice that we're
planning to implement this (I mean since our last emails about
implementing it). I support it and I'm willing to be a moderator if
required. Can we implement it now?

I'm not entirely sure what needs to be done to implement it. Certainly
the "Contributing" section on
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide needs to be revised. I
suggest something like this:

"Anyone with a record of contributing to the Ubuntu community can edit
the Community Help Wiki. You need a Launchpad account (see
/Registration) and be a member of the moderated ubuntu-wiki-editors
Launchpad team (log out of the wiki and then log back in after
becoming a member). "

I'm planning to apply to join as soon as it's implemented.

Regards,

Chris.


On 14 June 2016 at 11:19, Alan Pope <alan.pope at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On 14 June 2016 at 11:07, Chris Perry <clissold345 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> You don't want to publicly state the requirements. I'm not sure I
>> agree with that (but my main concern is to get the access up and
>> running in some workable form). Publicly stating the requirements has
>> advantages: 1. Genuine people who can't at present satisfy the
>> requirements won't waste their time by applying now. 2. If there's
>> more than one moderator the moderators will (hopefully) act
>> consistently. 3. Genuine people who are turned away can (in theory)
>> appeal. My intention was to set the (publicly stated) requirements
>> high so that even the most tenacious spammer will give up (eg if they
>> read that they can only get access if they have to hang around for
>> months and do some useful work for the Ubuntu community).
>>
>
> You'd be surprised how much people will do to get their spam on the
> wiki. We have had people sign up to launchpad months in advance,
> create PPAs, join random teams, send begging emails, message me on irc
> and talk about various programming languages to convince me to let
> them in. If you publish a detailed guide, good and bad people will
> follow it.
>
> At a high level though, I agree. Something which simply says that you
> must be a contributor, but without saying how seems fine to me.
>
>> I vote we give the people on this list a day or two to read these
>> emails, and respond if they want to, and then (hopefully) we get the
>> access up and running (in some workable form) by the end of the week?
>>
>
> Good idea.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Alan Pope
> Community Manager
>
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